By Alexa, age 10 Imagine you're at an art museum. What do you see? Paintings? Sculptures? Now, imagine that there is a new exhibit called Teknopolis. What do you think will be there? More sculptures? Sketches? Imagine walking in and seeing…
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Home Activity: Rainbow Capillary Action
Do you have a kid who is interested in science? Here's an easy experiment on capillary action that even younger students can do. All you need are 7 cups, water, paper towels, and food dye in three colors: red, yellow, and blue. Arrange…
KNE Life Skills: Prioritization & Productivity – Mangaing Your Time Part 2 – Multiple Focuses
Multiple Focuses: How to sort what you've got on your plate at the moment Most of us will find the ONE Thing approach (discussed in the previous newsletter) a little too intense, as we have a number of things on…
KNE Life Skills: Prioritization & Productivity – Managing Your Time Part 1
Rich or poor, young or old, there is one thing that all people have in common each and every day. Time (1,440 minutes to be exact). Time is the great equalizer. If you want to make a difference at work…
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Leonardo DaVinci
By Erika, age 13 The Museum of Science in Boston currently features the traveling exhibit about Leonardo DaVinci. He was an incredible inventor, engineer, and artist. There were wooden models of many of his inventions. In addition to his designs, the…
Penguins
By Alexa, age 10 Have you ever been to the New England Aquarium? If so, then you've probably noticed that they have penguins. Now, if you have ever been there for a while, just watching the penguins, then you have seen…
The National Park Service Turns 100
Can you imagine being responsible for 84,000,000 acres of land, while hosting 307,000,000 people? That's exactly what the National Park Service (NPS) did last year! President Woodrow Wilson created the NPS to conserve our country's scenery, wildlife, and natural and…
Hexa-flexagons
By Alexa, age 10 I've found a terrific use for all of my extra scraps of paper. They're called flexagons! You can make tri hexa-flexagons, hexa hexa-flexagons, and even tetra-flexagons! In this article, I will focus on the basic tri…
Birds of Paradise
By Erika, age 13 In the animal kingdom, "it's usually survival of the fittest, but for Birds of Paradise it's survival of the sexiest," as the Perot Museum says. Birds of Paradise are isolated species, so they don't have to…
A Human’s Owner’s Manual – Part 1
Why do human beings do what they do? There are entire fields of study dedicated to answering this age old question. Most of what drives the world is a net result of individual actions people have taken. Understanding why people do…
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